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@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar The last time I checked, Chris, I lived in Chicago. Maybe that's why I see the John Hancock Tower when I go out for a walk, and not the Temple Mount.

"All Jews must answer for Israel" is a more than faintly anti-Semitic position, and a familiar one at that.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar At this point, any even slightly alert reader should know what you are, but in what I think will be close to being my parting note to you, I'd like to take a look at an interesting lack of consistency in your shoddy attempt at setting up a philosophical position.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Your position, as you tried to justified mistreating the English, was that the descendants bore the guilt of their ancestors.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar If this is so, then how do you get away from the fact that the Jews were in Israel long before the Arabs, and that they were, themselves, victims of Arab military expansionism?

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Under your own theory, do they not merely reap what they have sown, and therefore, find themselves left without grounds for complaint?

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Also, you seem to have rather conveniently forgotten about the existence of Middle Eastern and North African Jews, who lost a lot of land at about the time Israel was set up.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar There used to be Jews in Jordan. There are few, if any, remaining now. Likewise throughout the now largely Judeinrein regions.

All of those Jews had to go somewhere.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar I have yet to hear even a single European "progressive" call for the return of the land taken from the Mizrahim or Sephardim.

And you want to talk about MY hypocrisy? Really?

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Mom's people got shuttled around, A LOT, and all I hear from the European Left, when they admit to the fact of the existence of non-European Jews (which is rarely) is a series of feeble excuses for the way brown Jews got treated.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar That having been said, you're trying to change the subject, while trying to bait me into exploding with the anti-Semitic dog whistling seen from you above.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar You're going to call me a Nazi, in a completely counterfactual manner, while borrowing talking points from the literal Nazis.

Classy, and a beautiful illustration of why I stopped caring about Irish causes a while ago.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Have a nice life.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar "is a series of feeble excuses for the way brown Jews got treated."

read: "is a series of feeble excuses for the way brown Jews got treated the way they did."

@jack, we need an edit function.

@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar This is all getting archived.

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Chris can try doing a few dirty deletes, but this won't go away.

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